156 ([return])
[ The idea is that of the French anonyma's "Mais, Monsieur, vous me suivez comme un lavement.">[
157 ([return])
[ The text (p. 243) speaks of two eunuchs, but only one has been noticed.]
158 ([return])
[ Arab. "Manjaník;" there are two forms of this word from the Gr. ????a???, or ???a??, and it survives in our mangonel, a battering engine. The idea in the text is borrowed from the life of Abraham whom Nimrod cast by means of a catapult (which is a bow worked by machinery) into a fire too hot for man to approach.]
159 ([return])
[ Showing that he was older; otherwise she would have addressed him, "O my cousin." A man is "young," in Arab speech, till forty and some say fifty.]
160 ([return])
[ The little precatory formula would keep off the Evil Eye.]